[7u6] Request for approval for CR 6961765: Double byte characters corrupted in DN for LDAP referrals

[Weijun Wang]

Hi All

This is a request to backport a jdk8 fix into jdk7u6.

CR: 6961765: Double byte characters corrupted in DN for LDAP referrals
Weblink: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6961765

Description:

We were using UrlUtil.decode() to decode an ASCII-formatted LDAP URI to 
get its original component. If the URI provided is not pure ASCII, it 
leads to an error. The URLDecoder class is much more robust in this case.

The Java URI class explicitly allows Unicode characters in an URI string 
and we should support it in LDAP URI also.

The fix is already included in jdk8 as:

    http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/e8438dc196bb
    Reviewed-by: vinnie

The patch for jdk7u6 is identical to the one in jdk8.

I intend to push it to

    ssh://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev-gate/jdk

Thanks
Weijun